cuba. tried to drawn he tro from the crisis is to avert crises going forward, both the u.s. and soviet union needed to be clearer about what he called the precarious rules of the status quo. when the competition between the u.s. and the soviet union so that neither would surprise the other with a reckless venture within the others' zone of core interests. >> you have to leave it there. perfect conclusion. thank you so much. we are out of time. thank you for joining us. he's the director of the harvard university for science and human affairs. thank you. >> thank you for having me appeared that website is cu banmisslecrisis.org. also tomorrow, bob deans talks about the federal issue. thank you. we will see tomorrow. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> c. the second presidential debate tuesday live on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org next. come "newsmakers" would jim jordon. then the debate between vice president joe biden and paul ryan. after that we will show you the 2000 a presidential town hall

this time? can you really handle everything retroactively? they are downgrading the u.s. debt. >> do not forget. we have already passed legislation that would handle things. we passed a bill that said let's not cut national defence. let's make cuts elsewhere in the budget. we already passed that legislation. we've already passed a bill that says do not have taxes go up on any american out there. we passed it. it sits in the senate like so many good people. the house has done its work. we pass these to deal with the fiscal cliff situation. harry reid will not bring it up for a vote much less debate them. you are right. the president has been very clear that is not going to happen. if we get to a lame duck session and we have a republican congress and senate and republican in the white house, i think we would get better policy. let's wait. in tennessee in the early in 2007 when he had an affair with i was just over in the capitol building. he was presiding over the session. do you have any remarks about his conduct and whether you think he should be presiding over the chamber? >> that

congressman steve israel then live at 11:00 a.m., the debate in the connecticut u.s. senate race. after this, last wednesday's debate between president obama and republican presidential candidate mitt romney. this week on news americas with he are joined by democrat in new york and the efforts to retake the thousands november, congress man, thank you very much for being here. >> guest: great to be with you.yq >> host: we got to reporters here in d.c. in the studio. aaron bleak, a political reporter there, henry jackson, ap political reporter. i think you got the first question. gl ahead. g congressman the race for the house has tack and backseat for both the presidency and the senate. most analyst don't think democrats have a great chance of retaking the house. but i have heard more statements from you. can you tell us what percentage chance you think your party has of taking the 25 seats you need in order to reclaim the chamber? >> well, i can tell that you we have the ball on the republican 20-yard line. i never said that optimism wins an election. it doesn't. you got to be

u.s. house and senate races from across the country. our guests are jennifer duffy and david wasserman. washington journal bang at" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> with the focus on presidential debates, c-span is asking local high-school students to send a message to the president. in a short video, students will answer the question, what is the most important issue for the president to consider in 2013. in videostudent cam competition is open to students grades 6-12. when george mcgovern, a former south dakota representative and senator and 1962 presidential candidate died. here is experts -- excerpts of him discussing his presidential candidacies and what it was like running against president nixon. >> in 1968, were you surprised when johnson decided not to run for reelection? >> i was. johnson was one politician who was determined to stay in high office all of his days. i think that was his plan. >> he saw that war turned sour. he was booed all over the country, by young people. he was sick to his hear that the liberal part of the democratic party turned against t

any protection of any kind of consequence. >> and one of the other questions is then who told the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., susan rice, when she went on the five shows, as far as the video tape, that was at least at that point believed to be the reason for this spontaneous demonstration, who do you think told her and press secretary jay carney and others to basically talk about it as the video tape being responsible for the demonstrations? >> you know, i don't know and that's really what's made it worse for the administration, is that because this went on for about two weeks, now i think they sort of have been campaign fokabitzingover something that t necessary my important, whether it was terrorism or not terrorism, but it is pretty clear for two weeks, they were saying it was primarily balls of this movie, whether it was terrorism or not. they spent money apologizing to the people of pakistan as if somehow the american government oral the american people had something to do with this crazy movie. i think all of that was bad policy, bad form and it's why this policy goes on and on